Child Life Referrals
Did you know a Child life referral can be for the patient and the
family? We didn't!
We are lucky to have involved parents and sometimes they need a
little extra from us. With a child life referral, they can help with coping
plans, offer gift cards, and offer other resources that can help make the
families stay more manageable.
Did you know if it's your patient's birthday, you can go down to
the gift shop and pick them out a present?
Postings:
A reminder that there are permanent and temporary lines posted.
Take a peek & apply. They will be up until Sunday.
Just a FYI in case you are seeing these on our unit from time to
time:
What is a Job
Shadow?
Job Shadows provide individuals
an opportunity to observe an SHA employee within a healthcare
environment as they carry out their daily duties. This experience will help
individuals determine if the healthcare role fits their personality or their
professional goals prior to entering a field of employment or education.
Who is
eligible for opportunities to Job Shadow?
Grade
11 and 12 High School students;
Post-Secondary
Students;
the
community; and
current SHA employees.
What are the
guidelines for a Job Shadow?
available
in placements of 4 or 8 hour durations;
a
one-time/single location placement opportunity (additional placements for hard
to recruit positions may be considered); and available in a variety of
areas/locations, but does not include physician shadowing or surgical/critical
care placements including Emergency Departments.
Housekeeping Info:
- IPAC spoke with EVS
today regarding long stay cleans on the unit. They are happy to do a
deeper room clean every 30 days for patients that have been admitted for
long periods of time. They ask that you notify their team by calling
2851, when these cleans are required and EVS will determine with the nurse
when would be a good time for them to come. If you are able to move the
patient out of the room during the clean- even better! Then they aren’t
having to work around anyone.
- It was brought to IPAC’s
attention that staff are not seeing EVS clean high point areas in our unit-
including the ceiling, lights, etc. Linda, The EVS manager will escalate. Their
WS will be updated to ensure this is clear. EVS should be cleaning these areas if
noticeably dirty and for transfer/discharge cleans.
- It was also brought to our attention that the area under the Kanban’s is not being cleaned regularly- this is something that should be done by EVS when they come do the daily room cleaning. If the pediatric staff are noticing that it is getting missed, Linda from EVS is encouraging them to mention it to EVS while up there.
Pyxis Discrepancies:
Please note that if a discrepancy has occurred on your shift because you removed a medication from Pyxis without selecting it (lorazapam, clonazapam, epidurals), this is an error. If you remove a medication before doing count, that creates a count error. This is the email from Pharamcy:
This is
another reminder that there are multiple outstanding narcotic discrepancies on
your Pyxis stations. You will notice some of them are >30 days
outstanding and it is the responsibility of your department to resolve
these. Some of these date back as far as 91 days. For best
practice, discrepancies should be resolved at the end of every shift.
These records must be accurate to align with Health Canada legal
requirements. If you cannot get these figured out I will need to escalate
to the next level,
including reporting these to Health Canada.
I have cleared off the discrepancies that Pharmacy created as of today, so any remaining discrepancies that have a Pharmacy staff linked to them will be because they found the error, not created it. A common theme for the remaining discrepancies is that your staff is taking the medication out when they are to be doing the blind count which creates a discrepancy in the current count and accessing the fridge other ways and not removing the medication appropriately in Pyxis to document usage. This is also an increased risk to a patient for medication errors when medications are removed improperly and without proper documentation.
** Please review the Pyxis machine in Unit 2 & 3 to see if your name is attached to a discrepancy. How to solve discrepancies: Sign in to Pyxis à go to “Discrepancies” on main screen à scroll down to the discrepancy with your name à select this discrepancy à click “Resolve” on bottom of screen (you will need another nurse to sign à choose a pre-typed reason for the discrepancy or type your own à select “Accept”
Check out the video version of instructions (1 min 30 seconds): BD Pyxis Videos
